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(10-29-2017 09:52 AM)scorpion Wrote:  

It's unfathomable to me that people make videos like that. The narcissism is completely off the charts. You video your entire (mundane) day and then carefully edit it and set it to music and put it on YouTube? It's obvious from the style of the video that she thinks herself the star of her own reality television show. It's just bizarre. What is wrong with these people? How much attention-whoring can people possibly engage in without any self-reflection whatsoever?

Social media honestly might be the most destructive force currently at play in the West. Which is really saying something. But it's unbelievable how quickly and readily social media corrupts young people (especially women) and turns them into narcissistic, attention-whoring drones who literally have no concept of a true identity. When you are constantly anxious about what others think about you, it's impossible to build real self-esteem (hence the constant push to preserve peoples' sensitive feelings), the only thing that matters is how you appear to other people. Everything is facade. There's no inner reality, no sense of being a person independent of the judgment of one's peers. These people don't actually exist in the normal human manner. Rather, they inhabit a pseudo-reality created in their mind based entirely on the perceptions of those who view them. They become disconnected from engaging in the real world and living in the present moment, and their focus shifts to carefully curating a social media image that exists independent of their actual reality. In other words, social media is literally making people insane.

Mind if I steal or paraphrase your quote? Because that is one hell of an eloquent indictment - social media and its effects distilled to its rotten core.